Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2008

Change.org is launching a social action blog network this summer and is currently hiring a team of blogger/editors to help create a movement for change around the major causes of our time. Want to create the premier online space for your issue and become a leading voice for social action? Positions are part-time and paid.

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OCTOBER 25, 2007

Here’s an example in the channel page: 24 Hours for Darfur Channel Here’s an example on the standard video page: 24 Hours for Darfur standard view If you are a 501(c)3 it’s a no-brainer to sign up. Imagine if next to the Donate button we had a “Join This Cause&# button. What do you think Holly?

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OCTOBER 25, 2007

Here’s an example in the channel page: 24 Hours for Darfur Channel Here’s an example on the standard video page: 24 Hours for Darfur standard view If you are a 501(c)3 it’s a no-brainer to sign up. Imagine if next to the Donate button we had a “Join This Cause&# button. What do you think Holly?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

Think about the last time you did something for a cause. You supported a cause because of how it made you feel." Two of their staff members recently returned from Darfur and are putting together a video to raise awareness about it. They are collecting questions from supporters about Darfur to include in the video. *

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

The Save Darfur Coalition asks to organize events, vigils. ghennipher @ kanter TweetUps and other events to help them feel involved with the cause. Deepen relationship through custom apps that improve on org activites (event fundraising, petitions). Create something to attend! easibey @ kanter actions that r easy/doable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

moving from Darfur to Burma to whatever cause is next. The hope is that some percentage of the people involved with these groups could turn into long-term advocates, but Jamal characterizes many of the users as ???serial serial activists???,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2007

My colleague, Ivan Boothe, who works with the Genocide Intervention Network and who is incredible smart about integrating social media into cause-related campaigns, pinged me about this reddit campaign. I wanted to help him out, so follow that link above and then follow the instructions. Then come back here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

I learned about it from the site Changing the Present , a donation portal that also lets you set up a wish list of causes to support in lieu of gifts for the holidays or other occassions. So, what I wonder is how many people go "cause shopping.?" Stop the genocide in Darfur, that???d Big or small.it t matter???just

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Use a personal "ask" - start small with your ask, even if its as low as $10 - youll get more Video can be a great way to make your cause more personable to potential donors - you dont have to spend a fortune on them, either People love to talk about themselves - let them. Use your current audience to cultivate these donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Is Facebook Causes A One Night Stand? Be A Voice for Darfur: Great Example of A Multi-Channel Campaign. Beth's 51st Birthday Challenge. Harry's Fundraising Video. How Do Social Networks Incorporate the Ladder of Engagement. Spell my Twitter Name Correctly. Intergenerational Wired Fundraisers: A Conversation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Below are some recent examples I found of proceeds from songs, or CDs benefiting a cause or nonprofit. raises money for Amnesty's Darfur work. In 2004, Band Aid 20 re-recorded, "Do They Know It's Christmas," to fund famine relief in Darfur. I'd love to hear your examples too. Volume 8 CD. Addition* 9.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2007

Voters are encouraged to vote for as many groups as they can in order to generate a comprehensive peace platform that encompasses the issues that are most important to each person, whether it’s the war in Iraq, nuclear weapons, Darfur or global conflict.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

do you see any possibilities for nonprofits and social causes? You can create or simulate an experience that can evoke an emotional response from a visitor, as they have done with Camp Darfur. s relevant to their lives, an interesting or funny video clip, an event or social movement that they want to make a difference in.

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AUGUST 16, 2008

One example is 24HoursforDarfur who has collected over 800 videos from celebrities, elected officials, and citizens urging Congress to do more about the genocide in Darfur. The more viewcounts your videos receive the more people you are exposing to your cause and message. There are lots of measurements, but theyre all relative.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

We also have a student division: STAND , which has more than 850 chapters around the world, and the students in those chapters actively organize and mobilize their communities and schools to pass legislation, to fundraise, and to really make more noise about genocide in Darfur and genocide in general.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

One example is 24HoursforDarfur who has collected over 800 videos from celebrities, elected officials, and citizens urging Congress to do more about the genocide in Darfur. The more viewcounts your videos receive the more people you are exposing to your cause and message. There are lots of measurements, but theyre all relative.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

That’s what nonprofits are asking of Facebook Causes pages. The numbers in the Post report, which were taken directly from Facebook Causes' own published statistics, show overwhelmingly that most nonprofits are poorly served by trying to use Facebook Causes for fundraising.

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

Tim says MySpace is not good for fundraising, although we have seen some examples of orgs running successful fundraising campaigns, such as Dollars for Darfur. So far, the only real strategy to analyze besides creating groups is the Causes application. Regardless, very few orgs (though some) have raised real cash via the Causes app.

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MAY 25, 2007

For us nonprofit types, we have heard that Change.org is going to be developing for the platform as did Project Agape , the temporary name for “a new startup that is applying viral principles to altruism and social causes.&# This feels big.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2015

And we’ll be hosting some killer pop-up sessions throughout the conference: Cause for Change with Derrick Feldmann. He won his second Pulitzer in 2006 for his columns on Darfur. NEW People’s Choice: Mission in Action Award: Every cause has a story. Friendly Savages.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

The panelists each described a handful of tools to help with online communication, specifically for nonprofit causes and social activism. USHMM : Crisis in Darfur - Visualized destruction in Darfur that was being publicly refuted - 50% increase in traffic to site - International visits went from 23-52%.

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